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ir; rough with hair; rough with hair; rough with hair; hirsute. His mantle hairy, and his bonnet sedge. Milton.

rom a part of its texture; wrought or adorned, as with figures. His mantle hairy, and his bonnet sedge, Inwrought with figures dim. Milton.

Cap or bonnet strings made long to tie under the chin.

A loop or eye formed on the head rope of a bonnet, by which it is attached to the foot of a sail; -- called also latch and lasket. [Usually in pl.]

A straw plaiting used for bonnets and hats, made from the straw of a particular kind of wheat, grown for the purpose in Tuscany, Italy; -- so called from Leghorn, the place of exportation.

A person, usually a woman, who makes, trims, or deals in hats, bonnets, headdresses, etc., for women. Man milliner, a man who makes or deals in millinery; hence, contemptuously, a man who is busied with trifling occupations or embellishments.

The articles made or sold by milliners, as headdresses, hats or bonnets, laces, ribbons, and the like.

A stiff cotton fabric used by milliners for lining bonnets.

See Bonnet monkey, under Bonnet.

through fences. It consists of a yoke with a pole inserted, pointed forward. [U.S.] Poke bonnet, a bonnet with a straight, projecting front.

Any trifling ornament for a woman's dress or bonnet.

material, -- used in place of collars or cuffs, and as a trimming for women's dresses and bonnets. [Written also rouche.]

bus, having long and prehensile tails. Some of the species are called also capuchins. The bonnet sapajou (C. subcristatus), the golden-handed sapajou (C. chrysopus), and the white-throated sapajou (C. hypoleucus) are well known species. See Capuchin.

Made or gathered into a shirr; as, a shirred bonnet.

erhead, and native of the warmer parts of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans; -- called also bonnet shark.

tying things; a cord, larger than a thread and smaller than a rope; as, a shoe string; a bonnet string; a silken string. Shak. Round Ormond's knee thou tiest the mystic string. Prior.

A border of lace or other material, worn on the inner front edge of ladies' bonnets.

A variety of the bonnet monkey.

A shade for the face, projecting from the bonnet. [Colloq. Eng.] C. Kingsley.

To loose, and take off, as a bonnet from a sail, or to cast off, as any lacing in any part of the rigging of a vessel. Totten.